Earthlink Trying to Keep Dial-Up Customers

[ssalim]

I played my first online game Diablo 1 on 28k dial up. It was memorable.

 

[t33lo]

Only grandparents use 56K and AOL. You could consider my grandparents "modern", since they paid for AOL but had a cable modem! I straightened that out when I went to visit them...

 

[Guest]

Dial-up is not just for rural areas. There are plenty of suburban areas where I live that are broadband dead-zones - no wireless, no dsl, no cable, no fios. These areas are only a few miles from the city at most. If you look at any internet provider's coverage map, you will see small holes all over the place, and the people living in those holes are just plain out of luck.

There are also a lot of people that can't afford to pay more than $20/mth for internet.

Still, if I ever had to go back to using dial-up for internet, I would give it up entirely.

 

[captaincharisma]

this is just about as funny as when quagmire discovered internet porn on family guy. he still though everyone was still using dial-up for internet

 

[Mysteic]

Dial-what? People still use that stuff. I though it was banned like fin-fin.